Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 28 Entries. Thursday, August 9 View Page Sky view of the garden. Thursday, August 9 View Page We have a few giant tomato plants in the garden. Thursday, August 9 View Page First giant tomato of the year is ready to harvest. Thursday, August 9 View Page Not bad, but there are bigger ones yet to come. Wednesday, August 15 View Page So we had chinese food for dinner and my forture cookie said "People learn little from success, but much from failure" after dinner we went out to the garden to check on the pumpkins...... Wednesday, August 15 View Page there it was...a darn blossom end split in the 1421.5 Stelts. Ott was 365" or 1,061 pounds. Bad news at the remote patch too.... Thursday, August 16 View Page The 1,320 Faskell (doing 30 pounds per day) had a blossom end split too. Poor Glen, he is not a happy camper. Ott 347" estimated weight 917 pounds. so we are oof to Joes patch. We are taking care of his plants while he is on vacation. He is growing the 341 Martin seed. OH NO! NOT AGAIN! Thursday, August 16 View Page Joe's pumpkin had a dill ring causing splits on several of the ribs. Splits are on the other side of the fruit. OTT 358" estimated weight 1,004 pounds. Sorry Joe. So what did we learn?????? Thursday, August 16 View Page "SPLIT HAPPENS" Saturday, August 18 View Page Even our field pumpkins split this week! Saturday, August 18 View Page Here is our first official virtual tomato entry for the year. 3.70 pounds or 3 pounds 11.2 oz. I think we will have bigger ones but this one gets us in the game at least. Tuesday, August 21 View Page We grow our long gourds up scafolding. We put 2'x 12" boards down so that it doesn't sink into the ground. We put black landscape fabric down under the scafolding to control the weeds. There are metal grates on top for the goards to grow across. It measures 160" high. Tuesday, August 21 View Page As the season goes along the plants covers the scaffolding. Here is a picture of our four towers of gourds. Friday, August 24 View Page I love the flavor of those sungold cherry tomatoes. Wednesday, August 29 View Page The 4.79 Martin is producing some nice fruit this year. Tuesday, September 4 View Page The genic experiment. (101 Shamanski) Tuesday, September 18 View Page We have one field pumpkin plant that is producing deformed fruit so we just let it go. We thought it would be fun to decorate with these odd shaped fruit. Well look what we found!!! 4 pumpkins growing in one big pile. It is a good year for field pumpkins. Tuesday, September 18 View Page Here is one of the little ones. I am not talking about the pie pumpkin. The one on the scale is weighing in at 90 pounds. OTT 165" Friday, September 21 View Page We will be going to Chippewa Falls in the morning. We still have to load the tomato and watermelon. Friday, September 21 View Page The only pumpkin we will be bringing to Chippewa Falls is this field pumpkin. The OTT is 190" Wednesday, October 3 View Page The leaves look great for Oct. 3 To bad the pumpkins don't look as good as the leaves. Wednesday, October 3 View Page When we pulled up the walking boards we found a few cracks in the soil. This happens every year. Last year my grandson got his foot stuck in the crack. Darn heavy clay soil. Tuesday, October 16 View Page Not to bad for a tough growing season. Monday, October 22 View Page Rosy our guard dog is keeping watch over our field pumpkins. We had 14 over 100lb. We grew only 4 plants. Great year for field pumpkins! Monday, October 22 View Page Rosy our guard dog is keeping watch over our field pumpkins. We had 14 over 100lb. We grew only 4 plants. Great year for field pumpkins! Monday, October 22 View Page Look at the smile on that little boy! That is what pumpkin growing is all about. This was grown on our 44 Martin seed. It weighs 127lbs and has a great shape. Wednesday, October 24 View Page See that speck of orange next to the date? That is our 1,250lb Martin. Now that puts things into perspective! Wednesday, October 24 View Page Green Bay Glen in his glory! Here he is, sitting on the 1,250 Martin at Lambeau Field.